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merely a historical book and well worth the money from the standpoint
of history. |

indy, the greatest difficulty that you will have in
seeking unbiased information from the present coaches will be the fact
that most of these fellows think they originated these ideas. I have
heard more than fifty men claim that they were the originators of the

fiveeman defense, ‘Moanwell claimed that he was the original pivot and
short pass mans

I played against the Buffalo Germans in 1905 when we
licked them for the so~cailed world's championship. ‘They were the
original pivot and short pass chaps if there ever were any, and the
history of Dr. Meanwell's rise in basketball was due to the fact that
he studied medicine in Buffalo and while there was a teacher of
wrestling and boxing in the YolleGeA. He never played basketball but
he used the Buffalo Germen's pivot and short pass that he learned at
Buffalo when he coached basketball at Wisconsin and Missouri, It was
not Neanwell's at all, but the Buffalo Germans, but he being connected
with basketball used it as his.

Personally, I think you have a pretty tough go if you
work on the basis of your listings on sheet #1 because it will not be
authentic due to the pathfinders and the pioneers of the game having
passed on, The fellows in the game at the present time are not
historians, but most of them are boys who have borrowed these ideas
from the old»timers end the pathfinders who have passed om. ‘There are
always pathfinders before pioneers, you knows

: On sheet #2, a study of the men and their definite
contribution to basketball, should be easier.

I believe the evaluation of the game wuld be much
more authentic by using this Assogiation book as a legitimate back-
ground, end then working in the development of the game from then on
up would be something that you could bank on. In my book, "Better
Basketball", I give the evaluation of the game from the pleying stand-
point, and this Associetion book gives it from Dr. Naismith's standpoint
- of the original game.

I might also say that while I was chairman of the Re-
search Committee we definitely settled on the terminology of the game
which then was in a very bad way. Each section called a certain play
situation by a different name.

It might be a fine idea to assemble all the texts on
- ‘basketball that have been written and see where the new ideas have
come from in these texts, Certainly authors who write would be
orgenised to bring out these thoughts, and a research of the texts of
these authors would be a definite research work well done.